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Joyce Kilmer "Trees" Poem Animation
unsubstantiated. "Trees" has been given several musical settings that were quite popular in the 1940s and 1950s, the most
... popular written by Oscar Rasbach in 1922, with renditions performed by Ernestine Schumann-Heink, John Charles Thomas, Nelson Eddy, Robert Merrill and Paul Robeson. The text stated below is the original written by Kilmer. I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks ... Please Log In / Sign Up